Angel

by Bernard Albertson

Overview

Angel is an adventure story aimed at the age group of eight to fourteen. Angela a blind twelve-year old girl accidentally injures her old grandmother and runs away from her grandparent�s farm in Indiana. She is picked up by a huge black trucker named Benjamin and tells him she is traveling to her Aunt Mazie's in New York. Despite her temper he decides to help her and heads his �Big Rig� he calls �Heaven Bound� toward New York City. Adventures and danger are their companions along the way and once there she is kidnapped and must be rescued by Benjamin and his friend Abraham. The adventures continue throughout the entire book.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148905608
Publisher:	Bernard Albertson
Publication date:	12/26/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	196 KB

About the Author

Dedication

To truckers everywhere.


Many times we have seen a big rig pulled over and the driver changing a flat tire for someone or helping injured victims of an unfortunate accident. Thank you for being out there for the rest of us.
In the forties my mother and I were traveling west in a Studebaker convertible. My father had just come back from China and we were going to San Diego to meet his ship as it docked. It was late at night or sometime in the very early morning somewhere in New Mexico on route 66, a freak snowstorm had covered the road and mother had pulled over to the side unable to tell where the road was. Lights from a large truck pulled up behind us and a man knocked on mothers window. She rolled the window down and the man asked if we were in trouble. Mother explained she was unable to see the road and the driver made a comment something like this. �There�s a town up here a ways and I�m going on through, you put this car in my tracks and keep my taillights in site. Don�t get to close now or you and that boy there may end up someplace in heaven.� My mother thanked him and said he was an angel. I will never forget his response. �No ma�am, I�m just a trucker.� We made it through thanks to that trucker and I believe mother paid a whole three dollars for a motel room. I was seven or eight then. Until the day she died mother referred to all truckers as road angels. Hence, the book Blind Angel and the truck Heaven Bound.

Mr. Albertson has dedicated much of his adult life to writing and reading for children. For almost fifty years he has been writing real life fiction for children who for the most part have had to deal with life on their own terms. Those he calls special children must learn to cope with adversity everyday and learn to become the hero�s and heroins of their own lives. He will tell you that a child�s smile is like sunshine and a hug from a special child will bring tears of love from your eyes and joy to your heart.